# Customer-managed fleets
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When you want to use a fleet of workers that you manage, you can create a customer-managed fleet (CMF) that Deadline Cloud uses to process your jobs. Use a CMF when:
+ You have existing on-premises workers to integrate with Deadline Cloud.
+ You have workers in a co-located data center.
+ You want direct control of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) workers.

When you use a CMF, you have full control over and responsibility for the fleet. This includes provisioning, operations, management, and decommissioning workers in the fleet.

For more information, see [Create and use Deadline Cloud customer-managed fleets](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/deadline-cloud/latest/developerguide/manage-cmf.html) in the *Deadline Cloud Developer Guide*.